The Week in Culture, “Potemkin Jon Stewart” Edition

There are only a few days left until the Iowa caucuses—and the even-more-intense-than-we’ve-already-seen months of campaigning, stump-speeching, and voting that will follow. So this week Slate TV critic Willa Paskin went long on the “Daily Show–shaped hole in the culture”: Jon Stewart has been there to guide us through every presidential election since 2000, and his replacement Trevor Noah, for all his charm and ease in front of the camera, Paskin finds, is just not cutting it in the same role.